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Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists

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2009

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Communities and Technologies 2009: Proceedings of the Fourth Communities and Technologies Conference
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In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phone-based independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean civil society and human rights activists. I identify three distinct communities and discuss their influence on the design process. Finally, I consider the challenges activist designers face in simultaneously addressing the needs of present-day users and the imagined future communities their projects hope to create.

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Hirsch, Tad (2009): Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists. Communities and Technologies 2009: Proceedings of the Fourth Communities and Technologies Conference. DOI: 10.1145/1556460.1556472. ACM Press. pp. 71-76. Full Papers

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